"Calligraphy is China's most revered visual art, able to fascinate with its natural beauty those who cannot read a single character and captivate with its subtleties those who can. This carefully crafted volume opens up a world of profound visual pleasure, with rewards for specialists and generalists alike. Its team of fourteen experts ex...

Rockets were invented in China, the home of many modern inventions, including ancient astronomy, and were used originally for military purposes in the 13th century. The Chinese space program was founded in October 1956 by the father of Chinese rocketry, Tsien Hsue Shen, who lived in California in the 1930s until his expulsion as a Chinese spy. In r...

This book addresses why China is going into space and provides up- to-date information on all aspects of the Chinese Space Program in terms of launch vehicles, launch sites and infrastructure, crew vehicles for space exploration, satellite applications and scientific exploration capabilities. Beyond mere capabilities, it is important to understand ...

Lunar Outpost provides a detailed account of the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements and training needed to return humans to the Moon within the next decade. It focuses on the means by which a lunar outpost will be constructed and also addresses major topics such as the cost of the enterprise and the roles played by pr...

China has released its first lunar rover mission, the following key part of the Asian superpower’s ambitious space programme.
The Chang’e-3 mission blasted removed from Xichang within the south at 01:30 Monday local time (17:30 GMT Sunday).

I have always been intrigued by China and the Chinese, their history, their customs and, above all, their ability to withstand the pains and discomforts of penury. They work hard under unimaginable conditions and seem to survive, despite the harsh odds stacked against them - and yet maintain their dream of better days. The China…

China's first robotic moon rover 140-kilogram (300-pound) "Jade Rabbit" rover separated from the much larger landing vehicle early Sunday, around seven hours after the unmanned Chang'e 3 space probe touched down on a flat, Earth-facing part of the moon leaving...

(While the true motives are perhaps yet to be discovered - if they weren't
yet - it is so nice to read that difficult things can and should be done
for the sake of learning plenty of stuff along the way, rather than with
mere prospect of monetary earnings in mind. However, it is disputable to
what extent an average Chinese folk are "fixated on the Moon", just like
was the case with average USian some time ago, FWIH - TR)
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China’s ambitious lunar space exploration program achieved another stunning success Sunday night, Dec 15, when the countries inaugural Chang’e-3 lunar lander and rover beamed back portraits of one another snapped from the Moon’s surface – that also proudly displayed the

China became the first country to “soft-land” on the Moon in nearly four decades on Saturday, taking the Asian super-power one step closer to putting a man on the lunar surface.
The unmanned Chang’e-3 spacecraft successfully landed at just before 9.

Chang'e-3, now in lunar orbit, is scheduled to land on the Moon later this week [CCTV].
(Note Source is ChinaTimes, Taipei, Monday, December 9) A source from the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) said China has made major adjustments to its lunar exploration program (CLEP), postponing its plan to carry Chinese astronauts to the surface of the moon.